My boyfriend was working in the souvenir shop at the Canterbury Cathedral in
Kent, England. One afternoon he was talking with an attendant who worked in
the cathedral when they were approached by two tourists. "Are you a monk?" one of the women asked. "No," the attendant explained, "I wear this robe as part of my job, but I'm not a member of any religious order." "Then where
are the monks?" asked the woman. The man replied, "Oh, there haven't been
any monks here since 1415." Hearing this, the woman looked at her watch and
announced to her friend, "Betty, we missed the monks."